> Almost all commercial software dev is not about technical excellence, but rather about applying the available tech to a particular business domain
A manager focused on results will not make decisions based on beauty or excellence, unfortunately, but based on other criteria: What gets the job done, availability of resources, price. That’s why PHP is still the most used programming language in web dev in Germany (instead of Ruby/Rails or Python/Django), and Excel is the most used tool for data analysis in the business world (instead of Python + Pandas).
A manager focused on results will not make decisions based on beauty or excellence, unfortunately, but based on other criteria: What gets the job done, availability of resources, price. That’s why PHP is still the most used programming language in web dev in Germany (instead of Ruby/Rails or Python/Django), and Excel is the most used tool for data analysis in the business world (instead of Python + Pandas).